RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 20 14:59:22 UTC 2008



On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:33:27PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> The guidelines also don't say if it should be Title Case or if the
>> summary should include the application name. If we come to some
>> guidelines (or working practices) on this email thread, I'll update the
>> wiki page with more details.
>
> So, while I think packaging guidelines are good to have, I don't think
> everything needs to be codified there.  It just makes a reviewer's job
> harder, and writing a guideline for this is going to be fairly tedious.
>
>> It would also be a good idea to have a few "shining examples" for people
>> to copy when creating new packages. When we've done that, I'll start
>> filing bugs.
>
> Just file bugs for packages you think are overly verbose.  Offer
> alternate summaries in the bug, and a URL to your email for
> rationale.

+1
-sv




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